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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What reason is suggested for the large number of children Alice and Francis had together?
(a) Alice was incredibly fertile.
(b) Alice came from a small family and wanted to have a big family as an adult.
(c) Alice and Francis did not believe in birth control.
(d) Alice wanted to prove she could have more children than anyone else.

2. What did Edie have nightmares about while she was at boarding school?
(a) Death.
(b) Her mother.
(c) Ghosts.
(d) Her teachers.

3. How did Saucie feel about Edie?
(a) She loved her as a sister should.
(b) She was in awe of her.
(c) She disliked her heartily.
(d) She was worried about her.

4. What disease did Edie suffer from which led to her being taken out of boarding school?
(a) Schizophrenia.
(b) Epilepsy.
(c) Anorexia.
(d) Alcohol addiction.

5. In the 1930s, the Sedgwicks divided their time between Long Island and which place?
(a) Santa Barbara.
(b) Miami.
(c) Las Vegas.
(d) Manhattan.

Short Answer Questions

1. Which of Edie's brother developed problems with alcohol and drugs?

2. What state was St. Timothy's school in?

3. What was Henry Dwight Sedgwick's nickname?

4. What did the Groton school decide to do which made Francis go berserk?

5. What year did Edie begin attending St. Timothy's school?

Short Essay Questions

1. In the book, what do the Sedgwick children share about their father's infidelities?

2. What does Stein begin book her book, Edie: An American Biography by describing to the reader?

3. What story is provided as an example of the amount of pressure Francis put upon his children?

4. Where did Judge Theodore Sedgwick's family settle?

5. What reason is given for the number of children Francis and Alice had together?

6. What effect did oil money have on the Sedgwicks in the 1950s?

7. How did life change for the Sedgwicks when they moved to their third ranch, Rancho la Laguna de San Francisco?

8. How did the Sedgwick-Minturn legacy begin?

9. Describe "Bobbo" Sedgwick.

10. What experiences did Edie have in psychiatric hospitals?

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